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Artist's Rendering of Tatum's Garden!

Our BEAUTIFUL Artist's Rendering of Tatum's Garden! Makes it so much more real. Thanks to you all for helping make this dream a reality for all our children!
You can help by sponsoring one of the playground components. Click here to sponsor.Click here to see larger image

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2015 Champions Games

Baseball games for special needs players!

2015 Champions Games are scheduled for March 21st & May 16th. Registering for the
games is very easy – just click here. The games have been created to
provide every Monterey County child, regardless of special needs, the opportunity to
participate in America’s favorite pastime of baseball.
It is the goal of Toro Pony Baseball to provide an environment that
enhances the participants’ self-esteem, physical mobility, and embodies
the spirit of teamwork and community.
Sign-ups for the 2015 Champions Games are underway:
• To register online click here.
• Select “Champion Player” registration
• No costs – Event is FREE due to our amazing sponsors.
• Games on Saturday, March 21st and May 16th at 3:30pm.
Open to children and young adults ages 4 and up, with any type of special need.
There are NO boundary limitations, all are welcome to register and participate.
For additional information please contact Heather Brodehl at HBrodehl@comcast.net
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We Are Re-starting Selling Pickets; Back By Popular Demand

They will line the outside of the fence. There will be around 270 to sell. You can have your name, your child’s name or your business name permanently linked with this incredible and unique place! These will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Pickets can be purchased for $50 each, or 4 for $150, and are personalized.

We Are Relaunching Our Brick Sales

We have more brick pavers, so if you missed out earlier, you can now get in on the action. You can dedicate the pavers to your loved ones, or your company can show their support to our community. To sponsor, click here.

Be the Spark!

Be the Spark! Amanda’s presentation to the IMPOWER luncheon.

Our Mission

Tatum Bakker, for whom the playground is named, is a Salinas native and has Spina Bifida. Her parents, Shawn and Amanda Bakker, are the visionaries behind this effort to bring a fully inclusive and accessible playground to our community.

Tatum’s Garden is a community-wide volunteer effort to build the first fully-inclusive and accessible playground in Salinas…a place where all children can come together, interact, be included and grow, through the gift of play.

Tatum’s Garden will bring a one-of-a-kind, shoulder-to-shoulder play experience to the children of Monterey County, and their families, regardless of ability.

We invite you to be part of this effort. Explore this website. Learn more about the need for an all-inclusive and accessible playground in our community. We are so blessed to be under the fiscal sponsorship of Salinas Circle for Children for this project, which means that all donations—monetary and in-kind—are fully tax deductible. Salinas Circle, a 501c3 nonprofit, has been serving the special needs community in Monterey County for over 40 years.

Learn about the inspiration behind Tatum’s Garden…soon to be the first fully-inclusive and accessible playground in Monterey County!

Tatum’s Garden will be designed by the community, donated by the community, and built by the community…as a gift for our children to enjoy for many years to come.How can you get involved?? Help us plant seeds in Tatum’s Garden today…

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March Clean-Up Day been changed to SundayMarch 29th, 2015 8AM to 12PM

Friends at Salinas Valley Community Church are doing a day of service and chose Tatum’s Garden as a site to bring tons of volunteers to help cleanup. We are so grateful for their ongoing support!

We take great pride in caring for this amazing playground and park we all built together! We will have a monthly cleanup day to meet onsite and address any current needs, such as sanitizing equipment, pulling weeds, wiping down benches and picnic tables, etc. Please bring rags, towels, work gloves, sunscreen and a water bottle! We look forward to seeing you back out at our favorite place in town. =)